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From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Re: Infotaskforce for macintosh is BAD ! (Also about Curses)
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:23:26 GMT
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In article <ahaavie-270494003021@aramac01.uio.no> ahaavie@ifm.uio.no 
 (Anders Haavie) writes:

>...Are there any good infocom interpreters for Macintosh? 

There is now.  Get Matt Russotto's port of ZIP for the Macintosh
from ftp.gmd.de in the directory if-archive/infocom/interpreters/zip.
The executable file is called ZIP_interpreter_binary.cpt.bin
and the source file is called ZIP_interpreter_src.cpt.bin.
For the Macintosh, this interpreter is much better than ITF.
It runs faster, and it supports "undo" (once) on those versions which
allow it.  No, one cannot resize the window, but you can't have everything.

>Graham, you should have chosen Tads. It would
>make it a lot easier for both Mac and DOS users.

I respectfully disagree.  There are plenty of interpreters available
for both the Mac and DOS (more than the two just mentioned, in fact).
I think TADS and Inform games are about equally accessible from a player's 
perspective.

However, this newsgroup is for authors (and occasionally, lowly
playtesters like myself (he said in a sudden burst of false modesty)).  
For as long as I've been following this group, I've been expecting to 
see a detailed analysis of TADS vs Inform from an author's perspective. 
Surely there is some author out there who is familiar with both systems, 
and would like to post such an analysis.  It seems to me that this would 
only benefit other potential authors, and there are those like myself, 
with no intention of ever writing a game, who would be interested spectators.




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Michael Kinyon			 | mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu
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